A Miami man is missing 75% of his face after a naked man assaulted him and chewed on his face until a local police officer intervened.
Happy Mother’s Day
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Single-Serving Site of the Day: Fiscally conservative Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Budget Committee and potential GOP VP pick, gets the Ryan Gosling treatment. Finally.
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Single-Serving Site of the Day: Fiscally conservative Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Budget Committee and potential GOP VP pick, gets the Ryan Gosling treatment. Finally.
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The High Court of Britain has ruled UK ISPs must block access to filesharing site “The Pirate Bay”.
Pippa Middleton, sister-in-law to Prince William, is getting heat for a photo from Paris (more).
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Finally, a Google for Grandma
Internet usage, studies have suggested, can improve older people’s mental and emotional wellbeing. And yet, for many seniors, the shiny machines sitting on their kids’ or grandkids’ desks (or in their hands, or on their laps) are just that — machines, foreign and cold. Nearly 80% of all Americans, Pew says — and nearly 80% of all baby boomers — use the Internet; only 42% of seniors do.
The digital divide, in other words, has a corollary: the generational divide. […]
So it’s both ironic and fitting that the young company that made its name simplifying the web is now trying to bring that simplicity to the web’s oldest users. In a pilot program at its Dublin offices, Google has rolled out classes that pair up older people with (generally, much younger) Googlers, providing instruction on everything from email-sending to photo-uploading to searching for information to, in general, navigating a not-always-intuitive Internet.
Read more. [Image: Cambridge Community Television]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bzeoq4Bk1qcokc4o1_500.png)
Internet usage, studies have suggested, can improve older people’s mental and emotional wellbeing. And yet, for many seniors, the shiny machines sitting on their kids’ or grandkids’ desks (or in their hands, or on their laps) are just that — machines, foreign and cold. Nearly 80% of all Americans, Pew says — and nearly 80% of all baby boomers — use the Internet; only 42% of seniors do.
The digital divide, in other words, has a corollary: the generational divide. […]
So it’s both ironic and fitting that the young company that made its name simplifying the web is now trying to bring that simplicity to the web’s oldest users. In a pilot program at its Dublin offices, Google has rolled out classes that pair up older people with (generally, much younger) Googlers, providing instruction on everything from email-sending to photo-uploading to searching for information to, in general, navigating a not-always-intuitive Internet.
Read more. [Image: Cambridge Community Television]
THE BIG PICTURE
Syrian refugees
- Syrians by the thousands are fleeing the violence in their home country and seeking refuge in neighboring countries. Turkey this week is said to be considering a buffer zone in Syria to secure its own national security as well as aid fleeing civilians. Turkey is already sheltering some 17,000 of those who have fled. (32 photos total)
2011 PopTech Science Fellow Pardis Sabeti is a musician and computational geneticist researching infectious disease, looking for patterns of natural selection that leave behind a footprint in our genomes. Those footprints can be detected by crunching through large genomic data sets and studying random living individuals who may possess genetic resistance to certain diseases.
In particular, Sabeti wants to better understand the deadly Lassa virus, which she believes has been around human populations for millenia. She tells the story of the Lassa virus during her PopTech presentation.
